The 2014 edition of the Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide contains information that will help you comply with Federal laws and regulations governing the manufacture, importation and distribution of firearms and ammunition. Previously, a trust had been the best way to purchase an NFA item without getting a local Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) to sign off on the application.
However unless you go back multiple years you may miss important things. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Under the Obama administration, bump stocks were correctly regulated as “not a machine gun” as they only served as a way to make it easier to loosely hang on to a semi-auto rifle and simulate to some degree full auto fire. This is an annual publication that lists the official and complete text of federal agency regulations. Federal regulations are created through a process known as rulemaking. %PDF-1.6 %���� The man was found not guilty, but it shows how the left and right hands of the ATF don’t seem to know what the other is doing.Further related to pistol braces, the ATF has rewritten rules on measuring overall length of weapons fitted with a brace and vertical foregrip. If you are an FFL123 customer and have questions about Federal firearms laws or regulations, just ask! They also will email or send you their latest bulletins and information, and your local ATF agent should also be able to provide you with any regulations material you require.Another way to keep up to date with changes since the last Federal Firearms Regulation Reference is through industry advocacy and interest groups like The National Shooting Sports Foundation since they work hard to keep their members and the general public well informed of what is going on with ATF rules and regulations. ]���A,;�/�s��6�a�U!������[(6 5�J����>� �3�b 3�xzVH>��'d�t�,4x�/IP� ��6uǦ���ϋ��l� 1�}l�'�2Í�� Instead they are selling you what you can download for free, and have tacked some current info you can already get from the ATF.Now there have been some very important changes since 2014 that are worth mentioning, and all FFL holders should be paying attention to the updates, bulletins and notifications that the ATF puts out. Because most Federal gun laws are fortunately fairly static and unchanging for the moment, this invaluable reference guide rarely gets updated by the ATF. Popular on AR style pistols, and various other pistol platforms based off rifles or semi-auto variants of various submachine guns, these braces address the very real need to sometimes balance or brace these ungainly guns. Some of them can change based on political whims, or people within the ATF simply not being able to make up their minds as to what applies in a given situation.For FFL’s and law abiding Americans, this confusion can have serious consequences if they misread a regulation, or the ATF decides one day to simply outlaw a broad swath of previously legal firearms accessories.Relying just on a five year old guide to firearms regulations isn’t enough. Federal Firearms Laws; Federal Firearms Laws -- Codified Regulations; Federal Statutes. There is often little or no practical recourse for when the ATF reverses decisions, and in this case, bumpstocks weren’t even grandfathered in, nor were owners compensated for their loss even though they were purchased in good faith.In the case of bump stocks, the ATF had a token period of public input, and then published the amended rule after they approved it. FEDERAL FIREARMS REGULATIONS REFERENCE GUIDE 2005 ATF Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ATF Publication 5300.4 Revised September 2005 1972. Memorandum of President of the United States, Jan. 16, 2013, 78 F.R. Unofficial updates out there don’t provide all the answers, and combing through ATF notifications for the last few years might lead to missing something important.The clever FFL uses all the resources available to them. Many state level gun rights organizations also keep their members well informed on current ATF activity, along with anything that might impact them at state or local levels.